Seems like the Apache foundation has been busy promoting projects to top level members. MyFaces, Xerces was just promoted and Lucene a bit back.
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Introduction here.
Richard Grimes writes a farewell column in DDJ where he talks about the .NET platform here.
I don’t have much insight into the .NET platform, so it’s a pretty good read. Besides the weaknesses of the platform, the really interesting thing should be that MicroSoft might not believe in it themselfe. Maybe it takes time, but they are currently not eating their own dogfood. Why should others?